A woman from Hertford will be competing among some of the strongest people on the planet at the World's Strongest Woman competition.

Lisa Corallini, 43, who runs a business in Sawbridgeworth, will be among 22 women who will try and win the crown in Rayleigh, North Carolina in December in a strength competition that will include dragging a 18-tonne lorry across a 50 metre distance.

Ms Corallini, who runs physiotherapy businesses S2Sphysiotherapy, first started doing competition involving weightlifting two and half years ago.

She said: "I have done a lot of sports in my life, but now my body isn't able to do a lot of dome.

"I was doing weight training at the gym and I wasn't able to do body building because of the effort and time needed wasn't possible with my business.

"A girl in the gym was doing weightlifting and she told me to try these people for weight lifting."

Lisa Corallini, 43, doing one of the tasks which will be needed for the World's Strongest Woman competition

From that point she started training up to six times a week, lifting weights at the gym and getting prepared for various competitions.

Despite injury woes, included hurting her shoulder, she was able to compete and gain her place at the World's Strongest Woman competition.

Ms Corallini said: "This time last year I thought if I didn't try and do a competition I wasn't going to be able to keep going.

"With competitions I kept coming first or second. I did well at a big competition in Birmingham too."

Lisa Corallini, 43, from Hertford pulling an 18-tonne truck

With a chance to take the World's Strongest Woman crown she will face various challenges to show that she is among the strongest.

Among the tests is the truck pulling contest, where she will have to drag a 18-tonne lorry across a 50 metre track as quickly as possible.

It is something she did once before charity, managing to drag it across the track in just 28 seconds.

Lisa Corallini, 43, from Hertford pulling an 18-tonne truck

With her previous success at British competitions she is aiming to do well at the world competition.

Ms Corallini said: "There is 22 of us, I haven't had a look at them yet. Its what I can do at the end of the day.